The Impact of Twitterbot Race on Interpersonal Impressions
H Goble, AJ Beattie, C Edwards – Impressions, 2016 – uni.edu
Twitterbots are automated programs that can tweet and interact with users of Twitter. With consideration to the growing usage of social media for communicative and informational functions and to current events such as the “Black Lives Matter” movement, this study

Twitterbot Surveys: A Method for Magazine Audience Analysis
EW Hanson – 2016 – summit.sfu.ca
Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore automated surveys on Twitter as a method for magazines to analyse their audiences and identify best practices for conducting the surveys. To do this I conducted a pilot survey with Twitter users who shared a New Yorker

Where do bots come from? An analysis of bot codes shared on GitHub
B Kollanyi – International Journal of Communication, 2016 – comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk
… began with the initial data set of 4,106 repositories containing the words Twitter and bot or Twitterbot in their … The Exponential Growth of Twitter Bot Repositories on GitHub GitHub was launched on April 10, 2008, and Twitter bots have been present from the very beginning of the …

So you want to build a generator
K Compton – Published online: http://www. galaxykate. com …, 2016 – galaxykate.com
… Page 6. work with them, Tracery. This has been used to make a twitterbot hosting service and lots of great weird creative twitterbots including some of my own. The downside of grammars is that they do not have a way to handle constraints, unless the …

A PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPAM
K Riley – humanities.curtin.edu.au
… to go elsewhere. I switch on my laptop, open my web browser, and log on to Twitter. I have several accounts, but on this occasion I … My aim is the same as it always is: to mimic the behaviour of spam- bots and, in mimicry, to creep towards experience. What is it like to be spam? …

One does not simply produce funny memes!–explorations on the automatic generation of internet humor
HG Oliveira, D Costa, A Pinto – Proceedings of 7th …, 2016 – computationalcreativity.net
… The result is ready to be consumed. Following the recent trend of using Twitter as a showcase for linguistic creativity (Veale, Valitutti, and Li, 2015), an implemented Twitterbot posts a new meme every hour. … It is also working as a Twitterbot, un- der the name @MemeGera. …

A” Divergent”-Themed CTF and Urban Race for Introducing Security and Cryptography.
W Feng – ASE@ USENIX Security Symposium, 2016 – usenix.org
… A “vir- tual” Four, written as a Twitter bot, provides the illusion of interacting with the actual character. … Figure 4 shows an ex- ample interaction between the winning team of the Urban Race and the character Four, as embodied by our Twitter bot. …

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
S Sarkar – 2016 – sriyasarkar.com
… WHAT IS A TWITTERBOT? A Twitterbot is simply a computer program that tweets automatically according to … While most commonly encountered by the average user as spam, Twitterbots have grown incredibly popular within a creative enclave that uses them to disturb and …

Identifying malicious actors on social media
S Kumar, F Spezzano… – Advances in Social …, 2016 – asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca
… His work stands squarely at the intersection of big data analytics for increased security, policy, and business needs. He has published over 280 peer-reviewed papers. He led the team that won DARPA’s Twitter Bot Challenge in early 2015. …

A Review on Enhanced Machine Learning Approach for Detection of Malicious Urls and Spam in Social Network
MRK Chaudhari, DM Dakhane – ijarcet.org
… and Mac. The KOOBFACE [7] is a most tarnished social media malware, which targeted both Twitter and Facebook. 3. Twitter bots [7]: Cybercriminals burn to use Twitter to control and manage botnets. These botnets control …

PSYCHOLOGY OF AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT AND SELF CONCSIOUS SYSTEM
K Anni, SA Kumar – ijcea.com
… Mahatma Gandhi As this paper is being written, news has trickled in about Microsoft taking down its AI enabled Twitter Bot Tay [01], due to it posting some objectionable tweets in response to similar tweets from some users. It …

The LIEBOT Project
O Bendel, K Schwegler, B Richards – E-Proceedings, 2016 – maschinenethik.net
… Further research topics are automatic deception and misleading (Wagner and Arkin 2011; Shim and Arkin 2013) and machines that suggest statements which may be true and false and that learn by human feedback like the Twitter bot Nell (user name @ cmunell). …

Empirical and Computational Approaches to Metaphor and Figurative Meaning
JT Kao, ND Goodman – metaphorlab.org
… In this talk I explore the workings of such a computational system, called Metaphor Magnet, that is realized in a number of public forms, from a Twitterbot called @MetaphorMagnet to a Web service that provides figurative competence to 3rd- party software systems. …

Evaluating digital poetry: Insights from the CAT
C Lamb, DG Brown, CL Clarke – Proceedings of the …, 2016 – computationalcreativity.net
… When the pub- lished work was a generator producing arbitrarily many po- ems (for example, a Twitter bot), we provided a single gen- erated poem. In cases where the generated poem was exces- sively long, a 1-page excerpt was provided. …

Applying Core Interaction Design Principles to Computational Creativity
L Bray, O Bown – Proceedings of the Seventh …, 2016 – computationalcreativity.net
… do take care to em- phasise the essential embeddedness of art in a complex of human social behaviour, and ultimately aspire to create work that interconnects with this complex, whether in the form of simulated artist agents, creativity support tools, Twitter bots, multi-agent …

DADABOT: An Introduction to Machinic Creolization
SM Have – nicolasnova.net
… Bot progamming language Twitterbots, the conversational agents22 used in the social networking site, offer yet another even more current example. Numerous accounts on the social network generate absurd, comedic, or poetic messages. …

Dialog State Tracking Based on Pairwise Ranking
V Miljanic – courses.washington.edu
… certain forums and has conversations with itself. ? some Twitter bots too, which I’ll talk about later (DeepDrumpf, DeepLearnTheBern) The first two examples use a Python library called ‘markovify’ to build a model and generate text. Page 44. Markovify …

Coming Out in the Spotlight: A Content Analysis of Twitter Responses to the Gender Transition of Caitlyn Jenner
C Lim – QUEUC 2016: Conference Proceedings is a free non …, 2016 – queuc.com
… the subject at hand. The study also noted thirty-two instances of spam posted by Twitter bots, all of which were summarily noted, but skipped over in favor of more substantial and meaningful content. 3.2 Coding and Procedure …

Telling English Tweets Apart: the Case of US, GB, AU
AT Hadgu, N Lotze, R Jäschke – kbs.uni-hannover.de
… Name. We used baby names to filter users within their respective countries. Our intuition is that baby names should help remove company names, Twitter bots, etc. and, more importantly, they can serve as a good approximation to sample locals (and hence native speakers). …

REIGN OF THE ALGORITHMS How” artificial intelligence” is threatening our freedom
MW Bader – stiftung-media.de
Page 1. 1 Michael W. Bader REIGN OF THE ALGORITHMS How “artificial intelligence” is threatening our freedom Michael W. Bader deals with the topic of “artificial intelligence” (AI) from the point of view of the incapacitating effect these new technologies have on society. …

Data Science News
MA LNKD – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… The programme is open to all nationalities and offers about 20 positions annually. Click here to receive the NYU Data Science Community Newsletter OR to have us follow your twitter feed so that our data science twitter bot can easily grab links from your tweets. …

Also in text analysis
NP LinkedIn – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… engineering problems. Page 11. Click here to receive the NYU Data Science Community Newsletter OR to have us follow your twitter feed so that our data science twitter bot can easily grab links from your tweets. To send us …

If It Looks Like a Spammer and Behaves Like a Spammer, It Must Be a Spammer
A Almaatouq, E Shmueli, M Nouh, A Alabdulkareem… – 2016 – academia.edu
Page 1. Noname manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) If It Looks Like a Spammer and Behaves Like a Spammer, It Must Be a Spammer Analysis and Detection of Microblogging Spam Accounts Abdullah Almaatouq …

PriBots: Conversational Privacy with Chatbots.
H Harkous, K Fawaz, KG Shin, K Aberer – WSF@ SOUPS, 2016 – usenix.org
… factoring users’ responses into the system. No company would desire a scenario similar to Microsoft’s Tay Twitter bot, which has been recently manipulated by the users to reply with racist tweets. A PriBot’s answer to a question …

Out of line
AO Herrera – ortizherrera.com
… In a conversation with Marvin Jordan the artist and theoretician Hito Steyerl gives a practical example of this current phenomenon: Think of Twitter bots for example. Bots are entities supposed to be mistaken for humans on social media web sites. …

CAN AN ALGORITHM BE AGONISTIC?
K Crawford – Ten scenes from life in calculated public, 2016 – katecrawford.net
… in these processes. By looking beyond algorithms as fetishized objects, we can account for a wider range of actors: be it developers in cubicle farms, Twitter bots, Amazon book buyers, 4channers and Redditors. And we can …

Interpreting Radicalization in a Social Media milieu
IV Chiruta – 2016 – duo.uio.no
Page 1. Master’s theses in Nordic Media University of Oslo Department of Media and Communication 1.12.2016 Interpreting Radicalization in a Social Media milieu (A semiotic analysis of the Twitter-texts written by Jihadi members and sympathizers) Ionut-Valentin Chiruta …

Exploring the Ways Arts and Culture Intersect with Public Safety
C Ross – 2016 – artplaceamerica.org
Page 1. A CREATIVE PLACEMAKING FIELD SCAN Exploring the Ways Arts and Culture Intersect with Public Safety Identifying Current Practice and Opportunities for Further Inquiry Caroline Ross April 2016 JUSTICE Page 2. …